Generation Jan Ullrich – Tour de France 1997

I know him, but he doesn’t know me. We grew up at the same time and are nearly the same age. He is a star and I am a nobody. This is a very common sentence when we see all these famous people on television, in the movies or in sports competition broadcasts. But in my case it was a little bit different, more complex, tragic and maybe even a little bit touching. In our early youth Jan and I met for the first time. My mother is quite scared of nearly everything. I can’t remember how often we were screamed at when we just stood kneedeep in the Baltic Sea, how often she instructed us – up until adult…

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„Generation Wall“ – English ebook about a childhood in the GDR and East Berlin

Now 15 stories of the "Mauergewinner", describing my childhood in the GDR and East Berlin were translated into English. Ebook "Generation Wall" - Amazon.de in Germany Ebook "Generation Wall" - Amazon.co.uk in Great Britain Ebook "Generation Wall" - Amazon.com in the USA . . Book description "Generation Wall": When I started writing these stories in 2008, I pledged to create something NEW and EXCEPTIONAL about the German Democratic Republic that does not exist so far and reflects the feelings of my generation. Why? Well, it was odd. Nowhere in these supposedly typical literary monuments for this dematerialised country, I could picture myself. I did neither belong to this generation of “Zonenkindern” (“Children of the occupation zones” by Jana Hensel), nor…

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